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Their whispered propaganda makes much of the fact that 3,000 whites monopolize almost all the fertile land in the cool "White Highlands," leaving the blacks to grub for a living in barren, low-lying "reserves." The Mau-Mau teaches that the white man's medicine (e.g., anti-rinderpest inoculation) kills instead of curing, and that pregnant black women are aborted in white hospitals...
...Grub Afloat. A jolly type with a weather eye for pretty nurses, Bergman had made a quick comeback from the operation; in ten weeks he was back aboard the freighter on light duty. Three months later Dr. Doig let him go back to normal hours and duties. "He must be all right," says Althausen, "or he couldn't eat that ship's food. If you can stand that, you can stand anything...
...news traveled swiftly along London's Grub Street. Charles Dickens' illustrator, Robert Seymour, had shot himself after finishing only half his sketches for the Pickwick Papers. A few days later, with some sample sketches tucked hopefully under his arm, a stout, bumbling, bemonocled young man called on Mr. Dickens to ask for the vacant job. The novelist took a quick look at the sketches and shook his head. "Had it not been for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence," declared William Makepeace Thackeray many years later, "I should have tried to be not a writer...
...Clement Attlee, whom Churchill once described as a nice, modest little man "who had a good deal to be modest about." Last week the New Statesman and Nation reported that, after Attlee had ably replied to some Churchill needling in the House of Commons, Churchill had remarked: "Feed a grub on royal jelly, and it may turn out to be a queen...
Philip Wylie makes a good living out of his writing, and spends most of the year in Florida. But from reading his stuff, you would think he lived in a Grub Street attic, with specially trained vultures tearing at his liver...